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24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 10458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:31:56 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Here:
>
>    find /foo/bar -name %f
>
> I think substituting "./bar" for %f has different semantics that
> "bar", doesn't it?

Hm, right.  I guess that's a possible command somebody could use (even
though it doesn't work well in general (if you've ticked several files)).

But note that it doesn't replace "bar" with "./bar" -- it only does this
if the file name starts with "-".

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